extract : connection to all mothers

Connection to all mothers

“When the two pink stripes confirmed I was with child, I felt a visceral connection to that exact moment, when it shook the lives of women everywhere and through all time. The pause rippled through my whole being like it crashed into the lives of millions, who ready or not stopped to vomit in a dirt track, or gag at the smell of food, who suddenly stopped their digging weaving daydreaming to count the days since last blood, who were alone or with family when suddenly everything changed, in a warzone a convent or a caravan crossing the desert.

I felt this first moment where it’s secret/sacred, between me and the forces that smiled only. and then millions of accomplices across the eras, this vast secret society of mothers and surprised mothers that I am suddenly a part of. my therapist laughs, exactly, exactly that, crossing even counseling’s discreet veil of silence to extend her own story, her own mother’s hand across that chasm. Never have I felt such a bond with my lineage and all of our ancestors, the ones who bore our bones in their body, who pulled a new soul into the world and with every breath sheltered its light. I feel them like a crowd standing proud behind my back, and with the resilience of thousands, I draw strength from numbers.”

Extract of the book I’m writing on abortion.

I am currently collecting others’ stories to continue writing. If you are interested in proof-reading the manuscript and giving me your feedback (14,000 words), please reach out to me.

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